Sen. Pat Roberts Calls For Fellow Kansan Kathleen Sebelius’ Resignation Over ‘Failed’ Obamacare Exchanges

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) responded to implementation of the federal health insurance reform law Friday by calling for the resignation of former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius from her post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Roberts, a Kansas Republican and frequent critic of Obamacare, said Sebelius should step aside for "grosss incompetence leading to the complete failure" of the online exchange system designed to enroll millions of Americans in health care plans in accordance with the 2010 legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama.

"How long do we let this failed exchange continue to operate?" Roberts said. "From the very beginning of the bill’s passage, I have said this cannot work."

The online network of exchanges in each state have been plagued by an onslaught of people who have been unable to register.

“Today we know, the problems with the exchanges are systematic, profound and indisputable,” Roberts said. “And, yet, the secretary won’t shoot straight with the American people."

“In the absence of a full repeal of Obamacare, which is my preference, we need new leadership from top to bottom. I am calling on the secretary to resign,” the senator said.

Via: CJ Online

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Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website

Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.

The Obama administration said last week that an unanticipated surge of Web traffic caused most of the problems and was a sign of high demand by people seeking to buy coverage under the new law.

But federal officials said Sunday the online marketplace needed design changes, as well as more server capacity to improve efficiency on the federally run exchange that serves 36 states.

"We can do better and we are working around the clock to do so," said Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services. The government is making software and hardware changes to smooth the process of creating accounts needed to gain access to the marketplace, federal officials said.

The federal government acknowledged for the first time it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for health-care coverage. Christopher Weaver reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.

The website is troubled by coding problems and flaws in the architecture of the system, according to insurance-industry advisers, technical experts and people close to the development of the marketplace.

Among the technical problems thwarting consumers, according to some of those people, is the system to confirm the identities of enrollees. Troubles in the system are causing crashes as users try to create accounts, the first step before they can apply for coverage.

Via: Wall Street Journal

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[VIDEO] Obama's Planned Parenthood Claim Destroyed...By Planned Parenthood

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Published on Oct 20, 2012 by BlackAndRight

Despite the fact the Department of Health and Human Services says there are NO Planned Parenthood clinics in the United States licensed to offer mammograms, President Obama and his surrogates continue to claim a defunding of Planned Parenthood will deny women of services they don't offer.

Via: Fox News

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Obamacare 2013: Now Playing At A State Capitol Near You

If elected, Mitt Romney vows to “end” it.

If re-elected, Barack Obama says he’s “open to amending” it.

But regardless of who wins the presidency next month, conscientious voters need to know this: Obamacare is already costing taxpayers lots o fmoney, and within the next few months it will cost millions of dollars more.

It’s bad enough that President Obama’s “if you like your Doctor, you can keep your Doctor” promise has proven false.  And it’s bad enough that his promise to “bend the healthcare cost curve downward” has proven to be fictitious, as well (according to MIT Economist Jonathan Gruber prices for private insurance will likely increase 30% by 2016 – this, despite Gruber’s support of the President’s claims in 2009).

Now, state governments are spending taxpayer-funded time and resources figuring out how to comply with the federal mandates. The Obamacare law has imposed a deadline of November 16th, whereby the states must explain to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services what they intend to do about the establishment of their respective “healthcare exchanges” - the government organized group of standardized health insurance plans from which citizens private citizens and organizations will be permitted to purchase health plans – and the states are deciding now how to proceed.

Via: Canada Free Press

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